Willy the rodeo goat has lassoed the hearts of residents in a rural South Texas county ever since she escaped from an animal enclosure July 15.
This photo provided by the Willacy County Livestock Show and Fair shows a rodeo goat named Willy, who was captured on Monday, July 31, 2023, after having gone missing on July 15, in a rural South Texas county. Residents in Willacy County had searched for the goat on horses, ATVs and by drone.Willy was found by 16-year-old Ricardo Rojas III and family friend Sammy Ambriz after they spotted her in a wooded area near Rojas' home.
The 16-year-old high school junior and family friend Sammy Ambriz were fixing animal stalls on the teenager’s 10-acre family property located between Raymondville and Lyford in deep South Texas when there was a Willy sighting. “And then she started to run again. But luckily, we had a fence that was there, and she tried to hop the fence, but then her head got stuck in the fence," Rojas said in a telephone interview Wednesday."Me and Sammy jumped on top of her. At that point, she wasn’t going nowhere."
When Willy first escaped, she hadn’t yet been named. During the search, the livestock show had been posting updates on its, and an online poll on the page christened her Willy. Officials had not been sure whether Willy was a boy or girl, Savage said.
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